"Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve." - Max Planck

"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness." - Max Planck

“Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass” ― Bruce Rosenblum, Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness

We are down to the last couple of days in this years game. Round 2 winner could still be in question but WeatherDudeNYC pretty much has the overall win locked up. On January 1 i will post the Dec. 31 standings with the final round 2 standings first then as soon as i add up the combined totals for both rounds i will post the final overall standings. I have now started the thread for the 2012 game here since there are some of you that post multiple picks ahead of time.